The Aesop for Children, The Rose and the Butterfly, sentence 4
After much pretty love-making and many whispered vows of constancy, the Butterfly took a tender leave of his sweetheart.
Who acts: many, Butterfly · What happens: whisper, take, vow · To what, where: vows, tender leave, constancy
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Rose and the Butterfly. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many, Butterfly), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | After | after | ADP | _ | 6 making | case |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 making | amod |
| 3 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 making | amod |
| 4 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 making | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 love | punct |
| 6 | making | making | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 whispered | cc |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 whispered | nsubj |
| 9 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 making | conj |
| 10 | vows | vow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 whispered | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 constancy | case |
| 12 | constancy | constancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 vows | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 making | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Butterfly | det |
| 15 | Butterfly | Butterfly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 leave | det |
| 18 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 leave | amod |
| 19 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 sweetheart | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 sweetheart | nmod:poss |
| 22 | sweetheart | sweetheart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 leave | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | past | many | vows of constancy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vow=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the Butterfly | a tender leave of Butterfly's sweetheart | after much pretty love making | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | |||
| 3 | vow | constancy | nom vow «communication transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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